Building Tour
Upcoming Events
AIANY Women in Architecture: 100 Flatbush Tour
Saturday, 9/21, 11am - 12pm
100 Flatbush
Join the AIANY Women in Architecture Committee for an exclusive tour of 100 Flatbush, part of the Alloy Block in Downtown Brooklyn. This development is part of a masterplan that integrates...
Building of the Day: 520 Fifth Avenue
Wednesday, 10/2, 12pm - 1:45pm
This tour is sold out. Please add yourself to the waitlist. Set to be the tallest residential building on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan’s most prestigious business and retail thoroughfare, 520 Fifth...
Building of the Day: Sportime Randall’s Island/John McEnroe Tennis Academy
Thursday, 10/3, 12pm - 1:15pm
Sportime Randall’s Island/John McEnroe Tennis Academy is a transformational project for sports in New York City. Phase one opened in 2009 with twenty regulation courts, a stadium and clubhouse open...
Building of the Day: NYPL Inwood Branch
Friday, 10/4, 12pm - 1:15pm
The new library branch is part of a broader project by New York City Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), in partnership with The New York Public Library, to create affordable...
Building of the Day: Bronx River Greenway/Starlight Park
Saturday, 10/5, 12pm - 1:15pm
A new gem of the Bronx River, Starlight Park, has opened as a reclaimed, reconstructed, and expanded park. When you cross the pedestrian bridge at East 177th Street, you will...
Building of the Day: Brick House
Sunday, 10/6, 12:30pm - 3pm
The Glass House
The Glass House, built between 1949 and 1995 by architect Philip Johnson, is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation located in New Canaan, CT. The pastoral 49-acre...
Building of the Day: 425 Grand Concourse
Thursday, 10/10, 12pm - 1:15pm
425 Grand Concourse, designed by Dattner Architects and developed by Trinity Financial and MBD, is one of the largest Passive House projects in the country. This mixed-use development includes 277...
Building of the Day: Far Rockaway Library
Saturday, 10/12, 10am - 11:15pm
The Far Rockaway Library in Queens is designed as a collaboration between Snøhetta and Brooklyn-based contemporary artist José Parlá to reflect Far Rockaway’s diversity and dynamism. Clad in fritted, colored...
Building of the Day: Domino Sugar Refinery
Monday, 10/14, 12pm - 1:15pm
This tour is sold out. Please add yourself to the waitlist. The Domino Sugar Refinery is the lone remaining historic building within a 19th century industrial complex. The historic shell...
Building of the Day: The Cubes at Socrates Sculpture Park
Tuesday, 10/15, 12pm - 1:15pm
Located at the main entrance of Socrates Sculpture Park at Vernon Boulevard, the CUBES houses the park’s educational and administration programs: 960 square feet at ground level offer flexible multi-purpose...
Building of the Day: Nine Chapel
Wednesday, 10/16, 4pm - 6pm
This tour is sold out. Please add yourself to the waitlist. Development firm Tankhouse and architecture firm SO-IL have collaborated to introduce Nine Chapel, a new Downtown Brooklyn condominium building...
Building of the Day: Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
Thursday, 10/17, 11am - 12:15pm
Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
A new downtown home for the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, the project is the culmination of two years of close collaboration between the architects and ISLAA to...
Building of the Day: Triangle Fire Memorial
Friday, 10/18, 11am - 12:15pm
The Triangle Fire Memorial honors the victims and legacy of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire—a pivotal event in US and labor history. Its textured, stainless steel “ribbon” on the...
Building of the Day: W New York – Union Square
Monday, 10/21, 12pm - 1:15pm
W New York - Union Square
In 2000, the historic Beaux-Arts style Guardian Life Building insurance building was adapted into the W New York – Union Square by Rockwell Group. The firm has recently completed a...
Building of the Day: One Domino Square
Tuesday, 10/22, 12pm - 1:15pm
Newly opened in 2024, this 700,000-square-foot, mixed-use development is the third residential building on the historic Domino Sugar Refinery site in Williamsburg. It features two towers atop a shared seven-story...
Building of the Day: HELP ONE
Wednesday, 10/23, 10am - 11:15am
HELP ONE, a four-building mixed-use complex, comprises nearly a full city block in East New York, Brooklyn. Phase I of this sustainability-focused project provides affordable and supportive housing for vulnerable...
Building of the Day: Grey Art Museum
Thursday, 10/24, 12pm - 1:15pm
NYU worked with Ennead Architects to design renovated facilities that highlight the importance of the arts on campus and reshape the visitor experience. Among the major improvements are the Cottrell-Lovett...
Building of the Day: Lever House
Friday, 10/25, 11am - 12:15pm
This tour is sold out. Please add yourself to the waitlist. Commercial office design was forever changed with the completion of SOM’s Lever House in 1952 as the first International...
Building of the Day: Brooklyn Public Library, Sunset Park Library
Saturday, 10/26, 9:30am - 10:30am
The Sunset Park Library Branch is one of the Brooklyn Public Library’s busiest locations, serving a community that includes many non-native English speakers, students, families, and seniors. With a space...
Building of the Day: Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center
Sunday, 10/27, 1pm - 2:15pm
The Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, occupying half of the historic Stonewall Inn, anchors the only LGBTQIA+ National Monument in the National Park Service. Honoring the legacy of the Stonewall...
Building of the Day: New York Hall of Science (Group 1)
Monday, 10/28, 12pm - 1:15pm
New York Hall of Science's (NYSCI) Great Hall was designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World's Fair and is one of the few structures that remains standing. Harrison's...
Building of the Day: New York Hall of Science (Group 2)
Monday, 10/28, 1pm - 2:15pm
New York Hall of Science's (NYSCI) Great Hall was designed by Wallace K. Harrison for the 1964 World's Fair and is one of the few structures that remains standing. Harrison's...
Building of the Day: Pier 17
Wednesday, 10/30, 12pm - 1:15pm
Pier 17
This tour is sold out. Please add yourself to the waitlist. Pier 17 is a major new addition to the public life of Manhattan’s Seaport district. The 300,000-square-foot building is home...
Building of the Day: PENN 2
Thursday, 10/31, 12pm - 1:15pm
PENN 2
The 1.75 million square foot restoration and expansion of PENN 2 creates the future of the workplace atop the busiest transportation hub in North America – Penn Station. The transformation...
Past Events
Building Tour: The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation
6/27/24, 4pm - 5:30pm
American Museum of Natural History - Gilder Center
The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation is the latest addition to New York’s historic American Museum of Natural History. At a time of urgent need for better...
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Building Tour: Grand Central Madison
5/11/24, 10am - 12pm
Grand Central Madison Walking Tour: Architecture & Art
Join the AIANY Transportation and Infrastructure Committee for a tour of the newly constructed Grand Central Madison! Architect Peter Campanella of AECOM and arts specialist Yaling Chen of MTA Art...
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ENYA Beyond the Boards: Perelman Performing Arts Center with REX
5/10/24, 12pm - 1:30pm
Perelman Performing Arts Center @ WTC
Join AIANY Emerging New York Architects for the second event in its summer 2024 Beyond the Boards series, a tour of the The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC), designed by REX...
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ENYA Beyond the Boards: REX
5/9/24, 6:30pm - 8pm
REX
The AIANY Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) presents the first of its summer 2024 additions to the Beyond the Boards event series. Leadership at REX will profile the firm...
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Building Tour: Olnick Spanu House and Magazzino Italian Art
5/4/24, 10am - 2pm
Magazzino Italian Art Musuem
The Olnick Spanu House in Garrison, NY was designed by the Spanish architect Alberto Campo Baeza in 2007 for the co-founders of Magazzino Italian Art, Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu....
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Building Tour: Magazzino Italian Art Museum
5/4/24, 11:30am - 2pm
Magazzino Italian Art Museum
Magazzino Italian Art, the nonprofit museum and research center, is dedicated to advancing scholarship and public appreciation of postwar and contemporary Italian art in the United States. Nancy Olnick and...
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Building Tour: The Suffolk
1/10/24, 3pm - 5pm
The Suffolk
Please join us for a tour of The Suffolk, JG Neukomm Architecture (JGNA)’s latest project with the Gotham Organization, in collaboration with Dattner Architects. Located in the Lower East Side...
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Building Tour: Powerhouse Arts with Cross Learning Alliance and AIA Brooklyn
11/4/23, 11:30am - 1:30pm
Powerhouse Arts
Calling all emerging professionals in Manhattan and Brooklyn! Join the Cross Learning Alliance and AIA Brooklyn Emerging Professionals (BKEP) for a building tour of the newly completed Powerhouse Arts, by...
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Building of the Day: NOVA
10/30/23, 12pm - 1pm
Turning the constraints of its small triangular-shaped site into an advantage, NOVA reaches out to the skyline and from a public park in a highly desirable, up-and-coming neighborhood. The luxury...
Building of the Day: Paulson Center – Tour Group 1
10/26/23, 12pm - 1pm
Paulson Center
The Paulson Center is a vertical extension of the NYU campus comprised of unique programmatic ‘neighborhoods’ including specialized academic, athletic, performing arts, dining, and residential spaces connected to a multi-use...
Building of the Day: The Gilder Center
10/19/23, 12pm - 1pm
American Museum of Natural History
The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation is the latest addition to New York’s historic American Museum of Natural History. At a time of urgent need for better...
Building of the Day: Perelman Performing Arts Center
10/8/23, 12pm - 1pm
A performing arts center was a key component of the master plan to rebuild the World Trade Center site following the attacks on September 11, 2001. Located adjacent to the...
Building of the Day: One South First
10/4/23, 12pm - 1pm
One South First
The interconnected towers of One South First and Ten Grand are located at the northern end of the five-building Domino Sugar development, which includes the adaptive reuse of the landmarked...
Open House at BassamFellows HQ: Remodeling a 1950s Philip Johnson Building
9/30/23, 10:30am - 12pm
BassamFellows Headquaters
AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network is celebrating the launch of Archtober with an open house at the midcentury-modern headquarters of environmentally conscious furniture and lifestyle designers BassamFellows, located in Ridgefield, CT. The...
Open House at BassamFellows HQ and Private Tour of The Glass House
9/30/23, 10:30am - 4pm
BassamFellows Headquaters
AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network is celebrating the launch of Archtober with an open house at the midcentury-modern headquarters of environmentally conscious furniture and lifestyle designers BassamFellows, located in Ridgefield, CT, followed...
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Building Tour: Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater by Co-Adaptive
9/13/23, 6pm - 8pm
The Mercury Store - Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater
Join us for a two-hour tour of the Timber Adaptive Reuse Theater located in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal District. The tour will be led by Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston of...
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Building Tour: NYU John A. Paulson Center
3/15/23, 6pm - 7:30pm
John A. Paulson Center
Meet at the 181 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012 (between Houston Street and Bleecker Street ). Join the AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee as we set out to discover the...
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Building of the Day: Radio Tower and Hotel
10/29/22, 11am - 12pm
Radio Tower and Hotel
Radio Hotel and Tower is the first completed building by MVRDV in the United States. The distinctive design comprises a stack of blocks, which match the size of the buildings...
Building of the Day: Queens Public Library Steinway Library
10/27/22, 12pm - 1pm
Queens Public Library Steinway Library
The design concept for the renovation and expansion of the Queens Public Library Steinway Branch is situated in an investigation of light and water. A new glass elevator tower located...
Building of the Day: Flushing Town Hall
10/22/22, 4pm - 5pm
Flushing Town Hall
Flushing Town Hall (FTH) was built in Germany’s Rundbogenstil ("round arch style") in 1862, during the Civil War Era. In 1938 a block of jail cells was added. The front facade...
Building of the Day: Pier 57
10/20/22, 12pm - 1pm
Pier 57
Pier 57 has been transformed into a dynamic, mixed-use destination that includes office space for Google and a new public park. Originally designed by American architect and civil engineer Emil...
Building of the Day: The Brooklyn Tower
10/5/22, 1pm - 2pm
The Brooklyn Tower
This tour is currently sold out. Add yourself to the waitlist. At 1,066 feet, The Brooklyn Tower is the tallest in the borough. The historic interior of the Brooklyn Dime...
Virtual Tour of Henrybuilt’s Finishing Studio
5/21/20, 9am - 10:30am
Online
Continuing our Site Tours series (virtually for now!), we’re offering Brick & Wonder members and any guests who’d like to join a tour of Henrybuilt’s finishing studio, led by Co-Head...
Tour of the Flatiron Institute: Design as Catalyst for Collaboration
6/27/19, 6pm - 8pm
Flatiron Institute, 162 Fifth Avenue (Entrance on 21st Street, just West of Fifth Avenue)
Join us for a tour of the Flatiron Institute, which was launched to advance scientific research through computational methods, including data analysis, theory, modeling, and simulation. The institute, an internal research...
Building of the Day: Manhattanville Campus Plan, Jerome L. Greene Science Center
10/23/18, 12pm - 1pm
Columbia University Manhattanville Campus: Jerome L. Greene Science Center and The Forum
Columbia University in the City of New York has always been an urban institution. Science, art, communications, global issues, community, and energy are combined and stitched together in a...
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ENYA Beyond The Boards: ODA Site Visit
7/27/18, 2pm - 3pm
420 Kent Ave
ENYA members will be led on a construction site tour of 420 Kent Ave, designed by ODA, as presented at the July Beyond The Boards event. Attendees will meet at the southeast...
Building of the Day: The William Vale Hotel
10/31/17, 12pm - 1pm
The William Vale Hotel
Add your name to our wait list! The William Vale is Brooklyn’s newest destination and nightlife offering in the popular Williamsburg section of the borough. The hotel has 183 contemporary luxury...
Building of the Day: Cornell Tech
10/30/17, 12pm - 1pm
Cornell Tech
Add your name to our wait list! Cornell Tech is committed to developing pioneering leaders and technologies for the digital age, and its mission of collaboration and innovation is reflected...
Building of the Day: Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center
10/29/17, 12pm - 1pm
Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center
The Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center is a new, state-of-the-art medical and graduate education building at Columbia University Medical Center’s campus. The building, designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro...
Building of the Day: Morris Jumel Mansion
10/28/17, 2:30pm - 3:30pm
Morris Jumel Mansion
At 250 years old, Morris-Jumel Mansion is Manhattan’s oldest house. Built in 1765 by British Army Colonel Roger Morris, the Mansion served as headquarters to General George Washington during the...
Building of the Day: Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District
10/27/17, 12pm - 1pm
Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District
Add your name to our wait list! Occupying the south portion of a triangular site at the intersection of Flatbush, Ashland, and Lafayette Avenues in downtown Brooklyn, the slim footprint...
Building of the Day: ISSUE Project Room
10/26/17, 12pm - 1pm
ISSUE Project Room
In 2008, ISSUE was awarded a lease on a theater, originally built in 1926 for the Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks. Working with NYC’s DDC, architect WORKac and...
Building of the Day: The George Washington Bridge Bus Station
10/23/17, 12pm - 1pm
The George Washington Bridge Bus Station
Add your name to our wait list! The George Washington Bridhttps://aiany.my.salesforce-sites.com/pmtx/evt__SiteWaitList?eid=a0b6100000RziVQAAZge Bus Station, which is located on both sides of Broadway in the Washington Heights community, opened on January 17, 1963....
Archtober 2017 Architecture Tour of Duggal Visual Solutions
10/18/17, 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Building 25, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Duggal Visual Solutions is a trusted graphics, display and multimedia partner to some of the world’s most innovative and respected architectural firms. On site, we bring the architect’s vision to...
Archtober 2017 Architecture Tour of Duggal Visual Solutions
10/11/17, 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Building 25, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Duggal Visual Solutions is a trusted graphics, display and multimedia partner to some of the world’s most innovative and respected architectural firms. On site, we bring the architect’s vision to...
New York Genome: A Model of Collaborative Science in the City
9/20/17, 6pm - 8pm
New York Genome Center
Join the AIANY Science and Research Facilities Committee at the New York Genome Center for a presentation of its work as well as a tour of its dynamic genome research...
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Cary Leeds Tennis Center Tour
7/25/17, 5pm - 7pm
Cary Leeds Tennis Center
Explore this award-winning tennis center in the heart of the Bronx’s Crotona Park with architect and builder Peter Gluck of GLUCK+. The flagship for Arthur Ashe’s New York Junior Tennis...
Tour of Princeton University Research Facilities
7/1/17, 10:30am - 12:30pm
Princeton University
Join the AIANY Science and Research Facilities Committee for a tour of the Lewis-Sigler Integrative Genomics building by Rafael Viñoly Architects, and the Frick Chemistry Laboratory by Hopkins Architects and...
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Tour of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah
5/22/17, 6pm - 8pm
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah
Join the AIANY Interiors Committee for a private tour of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah’s new home by Architecture Research Office (ARO). Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST), the world’s largest LGBTQ...
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Archtober Building of the Day Preview: Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility
5/19/17, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility
As part of NYCxDESIGN, the Center for Architecture will host an Archtober preview featuring five days of building tours across the five boroughs, with a focus on public architecture. The...
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Archtober Building of the Day Preview: Staten Island Museum Building Tour
5/17/17, 1pm - 2pm
Staten Island Museum
One of five connected historic buildings at Snug Harbor, Building A is a former sailor’s dormitory, renovated by Gluckman Tang Architects as the new home of the Staten Island Museum....
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Private Tour of New York City Hall
5/17/17, 6pm - 8pm
New York City Hall
New York City Hall, completed in 1812, is one of the oldest government buildings in continuous use in the United States. Numerous renovations and modifications over the years compromised the...
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Archtober Building of the Day Preview: Elmhurst Branch Library
5/16/17, 11am - 12pm
Elmhurst Branch Library
As part of NYCxDESIGN, the Center for Architecture will host an Archtober preview featuring five days of building tours across the five boroughs, with a focus on public architecture. A...
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Building of the Day Preview: Manhattan Districts 1/2/5 Garage and Salt Shed
5/15/17, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
1/2/5 Garage and Salt Shed
As part of NYCxDESIGN, the Center for Architecture will host an Archtober preview featuring five days of building tours across the five boroughs, with a focus on public architecture. The...
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Complexity & Collaboration: A 21st Century Medical & Graduate Building
5/4/17, 6pm - 8:30pm
Hear from key members of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center’s project team as they discuss the importance of collaboration, the intersection of space and technology, and how architecture...
A Day in New Hope: Nakashima Woodworker and Raymond Farm Center
4/22/17, 10am - 4pm
Nakashima Woodworker
Discover the architectural and artistic interconnections between Japan and the United States through the interpretation and combination of modernist and traditional ideas cultivated by George Nakashima and Noémi and Antonin...
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Healing Reimagined: New Stamford Hospital Tour
3/31/17, 2pm - 4pm
New Stamford Hospital
Join the AIANY Health Facilities Committee for an onsite presentation and facility tour of the new Stamford Hospital, designed by WHR Architects in Stamford, Connecticut. This new 13-story, 640,000-square-foot, 450-million-dollar...
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Jerome L. Greene Science Center
1/25/17, 6pm - 8pm
Center for Architecture
Columbia University’s Jerome L. Greene Science Center was conceived as a place for human connection, intellectual excellence, and pioneering research that cuts across traditional academic boundaries. Home to the Mortimer...
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral Restoration: Rejuvenating an Icon
11/10/16, 6:30pm - 8pm
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Please join AIANY Interiors Committee for a tour of St. Patrick’s Cathedral led by Jeffrey Murphy, FAIA, MBB Architects, and Ron Pennella, StructureTone Inc., and the NYU Polytechnic School of...
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Building of the Day:The Battery
10/30/16, 12pm - 1pm
The Battery
After 22 years, the redesign of the Battery, one of the city’s most historic and dramatic public spaces, will be complete by October. Quennell Rothschild and Partners was part of the...
Building of the Day:Japan Society
10/29/16, 12pm - 1pm
Japan Society
Designed by architects Junzo Yoshimura and George G. Shimamoto, Japan Society was the first building by a leading Japanese architect in New York City. The building opened to the public...
Building of the Day: Hudson Yards
10/28/16, 12pm - 2pm
Hudson Yards
Hudson Yards is the largest private real estate development in the nation’s history. The site itself will include 17 million square feet of commercial and residential space; more than 100...
Building of the Day: Knowledge Center, Columbia University
10/27/16, 12pm - 1pm
Knowledge Center, Columbia University
The Teaching and Learning Center is a classroom facility shared by the School of Nursing, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Mailman School of Public Health, and School of Dental and...
Building of the Day: Gould Memorial Library, Bronx Community College
10/26/16, 12pm - 1pm
Gould Memorial Library, Bronx Community College
The Gould Memorial Library and Hall of Fame are Beaux Arts Landmarks designed by the great Stanford White in 1899 and 1901. At the time, these structures were part of...
Building of the Day: Met Breuer
10/25/16, 12pm - 1pm
The Met Breuer
Marcel Breuer was at the height of his career when he designed the Whitney Museum in 1966 and was the recognized master of using what he called “close to Earth...
Building of the Day: 520 West 28th Street
10/24/16, 12pm - 1pm
520 West 28th Street
520 West 28th will introduce an iconic new landmark to New York City. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid and developed by Related, one of the nation’s preeminent developers...
Building of the Day: Lever House
10/23/16, 12pm - 1pm
Lever House
Midtown Manhattan’s Lever House marked a watershed in U.S. architecture when completed in 1952. Located on the west side of Park Avenue between 53rd and 54th Streets, the corporate headquarters,...
Building of the Day: Industry City
10/22/16, 12pm - 1pm
Industry City
A microcosm of NYC with one distinction: we’re creating an innovation ecosystem that embraces the disruption created by advancing technologies. Our economic spectrum spans verticals, from manufacturing to design, art...
Building of the Day: Museum of the City of New York
10/21/16, 1pm - 2pm
Museum of the City of New York
Five years in the making, New York at Its Core presents the compelling story of New York’s rise from a striving Dutch village to today’s “Capital of the World,” a...
Building of the Day: CRS Studio
10/20/16, 2:15pm - 3:15pm
CRS Studio
The brief for the CRS (Center for Remembering and Sharing) studio called for a space that can be used for yoga, meditation, various events, or as a photography studio. The...
Building of the Day: St. Patrick’s Cathedral
10/19/16, 11am - 12pm
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Murphy, Burnham & Buttrick led a phased project to fully restore the Cathedral Complex, which included exterior stone conservation, interior stone, wood, and plaster restoration, and stained glass stabilization and...
Building of the Day: Edible School Yard at PS 7, East Harlem
10/18/16, 12pm - 1pm
PS 7
With the completion of the PS216 Edible Schoolyard in Brooklyn, we are now focusing on PS7 in Harlem. WORKac’s second project for Edible School Yard NY comprises a 1,200 SF...
Building of the Day: Pivot
10/17/16, 12pm - 1pm
Pivot
Pivot is a pre-war studio revamped into a modern adaptable space containing a secret bedroom. The project emphasizes open space while overlaying multi-functionality, transforming in response to different needs. Extensive...